A Royal Chartered College joins Chiropractic & Manual Therapies

From January 2013 The UK College of Chiropractors (TCoC), a professional chiropractic membership body [1], joins the partnership between the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia (COCA) [2] and the European Academy of Chiropractic (EAC) [3] to publish Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. COCA is an Australian based professional college for chiropractors and osteopaths and the EAC is the academic committee of the European Chiropractors’ Union (ECU) [4]. This new partnership will enable the journal to grow and publish more quality research articles relating to chiropractic and other manual therapies. It will provide the three joint venture partners with a world class journal of their own which has the capacity to disseminate knowledge worldwide using the free full text online open access format with BioMed Central as publishers.Ever since its initial inception as the British College of Chiropractic, the organisation currently known as The College of Chiropractors (TCoC) has produced a professional journal. Volume 1, Issue 1 of The British Journal of Chiropractic was published in September 1997 to meet the ‘need for a professional journal as a means of communication within the profession and to allied disciplines, as a forum for debate and as a focal point for the rich diversity of practitioners in the UK’[5]. Five volumes and six years later in 2003, and with Elsevier as the publisher, the journal was re-launched as Clinical Chiropractic, aimed at an international audience and specifically intended ‘to provide authoritative information of use to the clinical chiropractor in advancement of their professional career, clinical skills and performance, and ability to deliver optimal patient care’[6]. Throughout its 15-year history, the journal has been edited by Martin Young whose understanding and vision of the importance of evidence-based chiropractic practice has shaped every issue, and whose personal dedication to the encouragement of others to publish chirop